How to approach painting -- The mechanics of painting -- Angles and consequent values -- Design, a pattern of differing values -- Light, unity of tone and the meeting of edges -- Aerial perspective, transitions in value and color -- Linear perspective -- Color, its emotional value in painting -- Trees, how to understand them -- Clouds, how they float -- Composition, the expressive properties of line and mass -- The main line and theme -- The extraordinary and bizarre -- Painting from memory.